The Court of Appeal had defined the expression ‘any liability . . under the terms of any policy’ in wide terms. An insurance policy is a UK one, if the obligations to be performed might have been part of a UK operation.
Lord Mustill criticised an attempt by the judge to construe a statute in a vacuum divorced from any proper factual basis.
Lord Mustill
Independent 16-Jul-1993, Times 16-Jul-1993, Gazette 01-Sep-1993, Gazette 19-Jan-1994, [1994] 2 AC 57
Policyholders Protection Act 1975 4(2), Insurance Companies Act 1982 96(1), Third Party (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Aitken v Financial Services Compensation Scheme Limited SCS 30-May-2003
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Insurance, International
Updated: 30 November 2021; Ref: scu.89046
